Re: Kernel update includes nouveau module that clobbers nVidia drivers

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Subject: Re: Kernel update includes nouveau module that clobbers nVidia drivers
From: Sven Joachim <svenjoac@gmx.de>
Date: Thu, 17 Jun 2010 09:22:27 +0200
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On 2010-06-17 08:53 +0200, AG wrote:

> But that is good to know that nouveau gets blacklisted automatically
> using that method.  I wonder why it has been included in the vanilla
> kernel in the first place - it certainly was a nasty surprise!

Because it is necessary for the nouveau X video driver which is the
default driver for Nvidia cards in Squeeze.

Sven

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